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OBSERVATION CAR.

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OBSERVATION GAR.

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PATENT OFFICE.

J OSEF PEJOHAR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

OBSERVATION-CAR. I

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent N 0. 746,371, dated December 8, 1903. Application filed March 25, 1903. Serial No. 149A32. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LJOSEF PnJ'cHAR,a citizen of Austria, residing at New York city, (Bronx,) county of Vestchester, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Observation-Oars,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an observation-car which is so constructed that the passengers may view freely the panorama along both sides of the road.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a side elevation of my improved observationcar; Fig. 2, a horizontal section on line 2 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, atop view of the cage-operating mechanism; Fig. 4, a side view, partly in section, thereof; Fig. 5, a detail of the longtooth wheels; Fig. 6, a detail of the sliding connection between car and truck; Fig. 7, a cross-section on line '7 7, Fig. 6.

The letter a represents the body of a car or carriage which I provide with a slowly rotatable cage 1) between floor and roof. The cage Z) is furnished with seats, doors, and windows and is otherwise adapted for the reception of passengers. The shaft 1) of cage 2) is stepped into a bearing b below the floor c and is engaged at its upper end by a set-screw b projecting through the roof d. The drawings show the car to be provided with a single cage and witha state-room a at each end but obviously this arrangement may be modified at pleasure.

In order to insure a free view, the sides of the car should be open opposite the cage intermediate the state-rooms. The shaft 1) of the cage is slowly rotated in the following manner: The axle g of truck f is by bevelgear g h intergeared with shaft h, carrying long toothed wheel 2', Fig. 5. This wheel meshes into a long-toothed wheeljQturning on stub-shaftj of car-body a. The shaft j drives the shaft 1) either by being intergeared therewith or by means of the sprocket-wheels 7' b and chain is. The wheel b is coupled to shaft Z) by a clutch Z, having handle Z, which is accessible from the interior of the cage, s0 that the rotating movement of the latter may be readily controlled.

The car a is provided with a transverse beam m, having a guide-slot m concentric to the king-bolt f of truck f. This slot is engaged by a slide or finger n, projecting radially from truck f and moving along the slot while the truck rounds a curve. The object of the slidable connection between truck and tional distance between the shafts hj when the truck turns on the king-bolt, Fig. 5.

It will be seen that the passengers may enjoy a full view on both sides of the road by stepping, whenever desired, into the cage 19 of the observation-car. The invention is equally applicable to steam or electric cars.

What I claim is' 1. An observation-car provided with a rotatable cage, a truck, a beam on the car-body, a slide on the truck engaging the beam, and means for operatively connecting the car-axle with the cage, substantially as specfied.

2. An observation-car provided with a rotatable cage, a truck, a slotted beam on the carbody, a radial slide on the truck engaging the beam, and means for operatively connecting the car-axle with the cage, substantially as specified.

3. An observation-car provided with a rotatable cage, a truck, a long-toothed gear-wheel on the truck driven from the car-aXle, an intermeshing gear-wheel on the car-body,means for operatively connecting said wheels with the cage, a radial slide on the truck, and a concentrically-grooved beam on the car-body engaged by said slide, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, (Manhattan,) New York, this 24th day of March, 1903.

J OSEF PEJOHAR.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM SOHULZ, F. v. BRIESEN. 

